Layer-1 blockchain Aptos has announced a collaboration with the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial to deploy USD1 stablecoins. Aptos CEO Avery Ching said that they have been in conversation with the Trump-linked DeFi project for a while and “they view us as some of the best tech partners they could work with.” Speaking to Cointelegraph…

Visa has launched a pilot allowing banks and financial institutions to pre-fund cross-border payments using stablecoins. Announced at SIBOS 2025, the Visa Direct stablecoin pilot enables select partners to use Circle’s USDC and EURC as pre-funded assets to facilitate near-instant payouts, according to a Tuesday announcement. “Cross-border payments have been stuck in outdated systems for far…

Blockchain oracle provider Chainlink announced one of the first products from a pilot with UBS Asset Management and Swift, the global financial messaging network, designed to let banks trigger onchain transactions using their existing infrastructure. According to a Tuesday announcement, Chainlink integrated its execution layer, the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), with Swift messaging. The move enables banks…